A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf there is a God what the hell is He for?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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